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My lord broke off in the midst of an account of the morning's bear-baiting which the tediousness of the Indians had caused us to miss. "Who knows if we three shall ever drink together again?" he said. "To honor this bout I use my most precious cups." Voice and manner were free and unconstrained. "This gold cup " he held it up "belonged to the Medici.
"My people father and mother belonged to the Brethren." "To the Close or the Open?" "I don't remember; I was only a little child at the time." "I'm a Plymouth Brother." "Well, that is strange." "Remember that it is only through belief in our Lord, in the sacrifice of the Cross, that we can be saved." "Yes, I believe that."
Although the family to which he belonged was good, it did not rank among the first in either wealth or influence, yet so transcendent were the abilities of Pericles that he rapidly rose to the highest power in the state as the leader of the dominant democracy. The sincerity of his attachment to the popular party has been questioned, but without a shadow of evidence.
Behind him stood his family, to whom he hospitably introduced those of his companions whom he liked, and though the family were not gentle of origin, they belonged, nevertheless, to the highest circles in the country and exercised their attraction through the son.
"That knife," he continued, "was very nearly the means of hanging an innocent man. It belonged to a gentleman of the neighborhood who had accidentally laid it on the table of the clerk's office, a few moments before I, as accidentally, picked it up and this gentleman had just had angry words with him about a trifle.
Kathleen and Ruth, did they but know it, made a most charming contrast as they walked arm-in-arm across the common; for Ruth belonged more or less to the twilight and the evening star, and Kathleen her face, her eyes, her voice, her actions spoke to those who had eyes to see of the morning.
When we opened his inside, what should I see but something shining. I took it out, and sure enough it was a silver watch. So I hands it to old Pigtown. He looks at it very 'tentively, opens the outside case, reads the maker's name, and then shuts it up again. `This here watch, says he, `belonged to my son Jack.
But pride must have a fall, and Leo's fall came in a somewhat curious manner. It happened that food was very scarce, and that the young cubs were growing more and more hungry as the days went on. Leo was a proud father, and the fine, sturdy cubs which belonged to him were the admiration of all the other lions who had ever had the privilege of seeing them.
The house in which they lived, a white frame cottage with green shutters and a veranda around it, belonged to a guide named Andrew Baker, who took parties into the woods for hunting and fishing excursions. Baker was a typical frontiersman brave, obstinate, independent, and fearless who might have stepped out of Leather Stocking, and he had a kind, sweet wife.
Or if he did look in the handle and find the receipt, he would say: "Well, if he did bring it, he evidently meant it for me." And he would take it out and keep it. Why should he give it to Gyuri? How was he to prove it belonged to him? "Supposing," thought our hero, "I were to tell him the whole story, about my mother, about my father, and all the circumstances attending his death.
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